J.E. van Embden

J.E. van Embden wrote his debut novel, Berezina, when he discovered it was far more fun than the newspaper reports, press releases, manuals and travel brochures he has written in his varied career as a professional writer. While the travel brochures entailed no actual travel, writing about places he'd never seen certainly paved the way for a serious foray into fiction. Once he made the leap from describing the adrenalin-pumping thrill of a jeep safari he hadn't been on, or the sound of waves lapping the shores of an exotic beach he could only dream about, it was a hop, skip and a jump back in time to his favourite period in history, the Napoleonic era. An Irishman of Dutch extraction, he likes to read, cook, eat, drink great coffee, sip the occasional glass of Malbec and walk his local seafront prom with his wife and their two dogs, preferably all on the one day.

Email: jan210759@icloud.com